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The Louvre - The History, The Collections, The Architecture (Hardcover)
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The Louvre - The History, The Collections, The Architecture (Hardcover)
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Every year, more than ten million visitors from around the world
visit the Louvre s 68,000 square meters of gallery space containing
more than 35,000 works of art. The Louvre is widely considered the
most innovative of the world s preeminent museums. This gorgeous
tome is a celebration of an enduring institution and the
magnificent works of art that it houses. Rather than showing only
isolated images of the artworks themselves, this book shows many of
the pieces in the context of the beautiful galleries and spaces
where they live, to give the reader an experience similar to being
at the Louvre. The Louvre explores the eight centuries of
fascinating history surrounding the museum, which began in the
Middle Ages as a fortress, then became a royal residence which
continued to enlarge, expand, and develop over the centuries with
the most brilliant architects and painters being called to work on
this architectural masterpiece. In 1793, the Louvre confirmed its
role as a temple of the arts when it was made the first national
museum open to the public. From then on, its collections continued
to grow from its roots in the old royal collection, benefiting from
acquisitions, archaeological discoveries, donations, and bequests.
Centuries of growth, evolution, and transformation culminated in
the 1980s with the Grand Louvre project symbolized by I.M. Pei s
world-famous and critically acclaimed modernist pyramid.
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